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Nothing exciting, just busy. DG just called in, said one of her kids (yes, she bred) missed the bus, and she's got to take the kid to school. Peace and quiet for a few more minutes.

After last night, am almost caught up on laundry, and By unloaded and restacked the dishwasher, so the kitchen is better. We packed the presents for his folks, so he can ship those today, and baby stuff for our J & P in Omaha, so that can go out, too. (I know, I know, we're late. But better that than never, right?) We'll pack the presents for my family in our suitcases, and wrap/label things when we get to Mom's.

Had a long phone call from Brenda last night. It summed down to she's still happy where she works, still having trouble getting dates, and is heading back to Dodge City to see her folks for Xmas.

Today's going to be the high-impact day this week, for work, anyway. We've got at least 2 volunteers coming in today, and both of those have to be watched and given instructions for each thing they're given to do. (And one of them will have to be watched most of the time she's here, to make sure that she does what she's told. And then we'll have to chase her out when we want to leave, because she'll not get here until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and she'll want to talk and visit and work very slowly, and she's quiet happy to stay until 7pm if we don't push her out the door.)

Got a little crocheting done last night: 173/169 squares. I'm planning to spend some serious quality time on the gift afghan on Friday; and the kilt hose will go with me to Mom's. I ought to be able to get a fair bit done on those on the drive.

Well, that simplfies matters

The 9am-to-2:30pm volunteer just called and cancelled for today. Great. Now I only have to find projects for DG and the afternoon volunteer.

And tomorrow may be interesting. One of Donna's former students, who now works for Dupont Nurseries, called this morning, saying he's bringing her more fancy hibiscus. Those are fun. Bug magnets, but fun.

This is for the ladies...

I read misia's posts on a friend's flist; she's usually got pithy things to say about culture, and life in general, from a very practical feminist point of view. She posted some pointed commentary on menstruation earlier this morning, later followed by the post linked below.

Possibly not work safe, but, oh-so-funny.

Hey, Cat!!!

Had an idea. Wanna work on this afghan as our summer exchange?

Another link for Cat

I really am working, honest.

You might need to make this argyle iPod jumper for your toy :)

More string geeking

Another for the "strange enough I've got to share" category: plate tectonics scarf (for the geology geeks)

For my computer geek peeps, the essay HEX and BIN, meet my friends Knit and Purl.

And, if I can find it, I've seen references to a "viral knitting project", which made a series of pieces of art knitting, rendering the binary code of the Code Red computer virus as textured knitting. (As I understand the bits I've seen, it was intended as policital commentary, on the color coded "terror alerts".) I'm still looking. All I've found so far are summaries of the aims of the project, and a couple of blurry photos of something that could be a bright red scarf. There's a brief discussion of the project here.